The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 20

Till he comes you'll never get any older or any wiser.

Who acts: plan, you · What happens: come, not get

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	3 comes	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 older	det
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 get	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 wiser	cc
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 wiser	det
12	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 older	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	plan						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not get	future	you					old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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